Well I did test each file and they all worked but I didn't click on the menu item to see if it caused the proper result, my shortcoming it seems. So I will take a few steps back and then I can move forward. Thanks, Aaron p.s. us non techies find detailed instructions like on these emails most helpful.
Sent from Mailspring (https://link.getmailspring.com/link/0280adb1-5d84-4bd0-b255-63559591a...@getmailspring.com/0?redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fgetmailspring.com%2F&recipient=ZGVuZW1vLWRldmVsQGdudS5vcmc%3D), the best free email app for work On Sep 18 2020, at 7:32 am, Richard Shann <rich...@rshann.plus.com> wrote: > On Fri, 2020-09-18 at 05:49 -0400, aaron mehl wrote: > > Hi Richard thanks for the heads up, you were right I needed to post > > the script in order to get it working. > > The conventions you mentioned of <> () "" are they discussed in the > > docs since I am totally a newbie on this it would be nice to have had > > this written out. > > well the convention of writing <your name> meaning that you write your > name in the place where <your name> appears is just a common parlance > among techies. > The () are the indicators for a list in the Scheme programming language > - the most fundamental bit of syntax. The "" are also Scheme syntax > denoting a string. > > But the convention that the Scheme procedure corresponding to a Denemo > command of name <thecommandname> is d-<thecommandname> is mentioned in > the docs in section 29, Writing Scheme Scripts. > > However, most people pick up this stuff by seeing examples and by > testing out a small sample. So before creating all 18 shortcuts it > would make sense to create just one of the note-insertion commands, > check that it works when executed from the menu, then create just one > of the (d-AddKeybinding ...) procedures and test it out by executing it > in the Scheme window and seeing if the keypress does indeed execute the > desired command and then turning that into the mode-switch command. > When that is working you would add more of the same using the right- > click->"Save Script from Scheme Window" to override the first version > of your mode change command with the new keybindings. > > HTH > Richard
